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Post by Marcus Kane on Jun 17, 2017 20:16:39 GMT
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Marcus watched as she stared at the seat for a moment but didn't take it. He walked around the desk, so nothing was between them just as she finally pushed out the words. "I'm pregnant." He paused in his steps, and his face showed the surprise that he felt. It wasn't what he had expected the younger woman to tell him. He had expected this to be about poltics or some threat to their people. Not something this personal. "Mom doesn't know." Her mother didn't know. She was sure, and she was unsure. He moved to lean on the desk, with his arms folding over his chest.
He was unsure why she came to him first, but he could gather a guess. Her father was dead, and she was worried about telling her mother. With himself and her mother growing close, she was seeking out a father figure. He felt a tightening in his chest the knowledge she might see him this way. Which was what guided his words to her, "I think you should tell your mother," he told her, his voice soft and understanding rather then a command. "And I think that you should use these years we have in here to stop trying to fight so hard." Rest. Be a young mother and not someone with so much pressure. "Let Octavia and the council take care of the politics, and just work on being a mother." He wasn't sure if that was what she wanted to hear, but it was what she needed to hear. "Who is the father?"
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Post by Marcus Kane on Jun 17, 2017 19:58:58 GMT
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He found himself watching her, grateful she was here and knowing that he had come so close to loosing her. "Just, try not to scare him," she teased him, and Marcus smiled at her. He wasn't sure he could scare he grounder but he would give it his best effort. "He has no where to run." Like back on the Ark. They were not back at an enclosed population, and most of that population hated them. If they had learned that Skikru had tried to take the bunker, then there would be blood.
"I'm fine," She told him, and Marcus felt relief at knowing she was here, and alright. Knowing she was alive and safe made it easier for him to do what he needed to do, and think about how to get radio communications with the Ark. "Marcus . . . my name wasn't on the list." He stayed silent for a moment, knowing that she hadn't been on the list, but also knowing that he couldn't let her die.
"Clarke, Bellamy, and the others never made it back." His voice was slow, and low, holding an underlying emotion. Callie would understand, since she knew how fond of Bellamy he was. Over the course of their time on Earth, Kane had come to think of the young man as a son. It had made these last few months hard with so much between them, but he still cared deeply for the younger man. "We lost radio contact with them, but last we heard from them was they weren't coming back. They didn't have the time, so instead Raven was going to try to get them back to the Ark. We were able to take in four more people, since Monty is with them."
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Post by Marcus Kane on Jun 17, 2017 17:43:44 GMT
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Marcus looked up as Clarke entered, and he nodded his head at her words. It was odd, but it was unsettling. He wanted to know what was happening out there. Not just on the ground but back on the Ark. He was worried because Raven had said that A.L.I.E. had gone back up to the ring, and now he had Bellamy, Raven, Monty, Harper and Murphy up there, plus two grounders with Emori and and Echo. He worried that the mixture of people, knowing that the history between some of them weren't positive, and recent evens had made it worse. Bellamy and Echo had a dangerous past, and one that Kane didn't always understand. How could he? He knew that Bellamy had raised a sister, and Kane had never raised anyone. The cloest he had come was to Callie's daughter, Lilly. In recent years, maybe Clarke.
Azgeda and Bellamy--specially the one who had tried to kill his sister twice, worried him. He had to trust their need to survive out weighed their history. "It will be a while before we can get out there to work on communication." He admitted, but didn't seem pleased by the only choice he had, "until then we are forced to wait." He stood up more as Clarke spoke something that shifted his focus away from the monitors to her. "I need... to tell you something. And I need your advice." He gestured tot he chair before, his days of being the Chancellor still evident in his demeanor, even if it was softened by Clarke being the woman he loves' daughter. "I am here to help in anyway i can."
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Post by Marcus Kane on Jun 8, 2017 22:20:33 GMT
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Marcus sat in what he assumed was now the chancellor's office. Commander? He wasn't sure what Octavia would be calling herself, but everyone now followed the young girl. He sat in deep thought about the changes in the young lady from when he had first meet her and now. She had been a small ball of rage, jumping at any reason to fight and prove herself. Even before that he knew she had been a quite girl, who had stayed under a floor for 16 years. Now they had placed all their lives in her hands. He trusted and valued Indra, but he also knew that where Indra taught her strength, he needed to teach her other things. Which was why he wasn't going to back down, and was going to force his way into her council. It wouldn't be hard--the youngest Blake seemed to trust and respect him. It was the other Blake he wondered about at time, more so recently.
Hearing footstep, he pulled out of his mind and looked at the screens before him that was supposed to tell them information about the outside world. So far they were blank. Everything was blank. No word on the others, if they had made it to the Ark, if they were alive. He had Wick working on it, but whatever was wrong was wrong with the outside--where they could not go to fix anything. Not for years yet.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Jun 3, 2017 15:21:58 GMT
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He pushed opened the door, and paused at seeing her appearing to just be waking up. Marcus shut it behind him, and walked forward toward her. "She is fine, her name was on the list." Marcus reached a hand out to touch her face, just checking to see if she was alright after being drugged and the fall to the floor. He was grateful she had not hit her head. "The grounder that she is so fond of took her to his area." Marcus and Callie had been together long enough that he was fond of Lilly. She wasn't his daughter, but she was very important to him. "I am going to have to seek him out, aren't I?" During their time together he had sometimes joked that since Lilly was the closest thing he had to a child he would have to vet her boyfriends. That had been years ago, and before he and Callie and ended their relationship. It was a slight joke, and reminder of those times.
But right now, he knew Lilly was safe. He was more forced on making sure Callie was alright. "How is your head?" He remembered the sight of there. Her face that normally held an adorable expression of anything ranging from pride to annoyance with him had been blank. Her face was expressive, and to see her almost lifeless there had caused his hands to shake. He had been unable to send her to die. Had Bellamy, Clarke and Raven made it back then he would not be here right now. Octavia said they were going back to the Ark. It would be years before he knew if they made it. The unknown was unsettling. "You should rest a bit more. I can send word to Lilly and have her find you here when she is able. The affects of the gas should wear off quickly." He paused, before asking something that just came to mind. "I can get Abby if your head is hurting?"
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Post by Marcus Kane on Jun 3, 2017 2:48:59 GMT
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Marcus had talked Jaha into doing something horrible to save their people. He didn't like it, and it broke his heart, but he had to do it to keep them from fighting. After Jaha got everyone in a rage, there was no backing down from it. No speech he could give, no moment Octavia could steal to make a point. There was only one way out, and he took it. They would follow Clarke's list and save only these people. He was on it. Abby was on it. Even Jaha was on it, but not many other adults. Their age worked against them, and they needed the young to be able to regrow their numbers in five years.
WHe moved over to Callie, and knew she wasn't on Clarke's list. Brushing back her hair, he felt his heart swell. He couldn't let her die. Lifting her into his arms, he passed her to a grounder, "Take her too my room." He told the grounder. Marcus leaned forward and kissed her forehead, before allowing the grounder to take her away. He felt Jaha move up behind him, and he turned to face him. "She can have my spot." He told him, giving his old friend a slow nod before moving on to help finish sorting their people. Jaha didn't say anything, just gave him a knowing look. Jaha had always known how Kane felt about Callie, and it was sad but no surprise to the man that Marcus was going to die, so she could live.
In the end, it never came to pass. Bellamy, and Clarke didn't make it back with Raven; leaving them with three extra spots to fill. Marcus, David Miller, and another was pulled in at the last second. They would live too. Marcus walked slowly to his bunker. Not many had rooms to their selves, but he had one. A few others too. Pausing outside of the door, he wondered if she was still in there. If she had been told what he did. She had to have known her name wasn't on the list. She knew he loved her, even if they had not often been together, and even if he had not shown it to her at times. But Marcus knew. He always knew.
He would die for her.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Apr 2, 2017 23:40:32 GMT
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It had been a hard few weeks since the fall of the mountain, but their people were coming out strong. Marcus stood at the doorway into the Ark and watched as a group of them were making a garden, while others were working on a well. The wall was becoming thicker to protect them, but the truce was holding. It seemed they had finally found peace. Marcus hoped it would last. They needed some hope right now. After everything they had seen and done since landing on Earth, everyone needed some peace.
Turning he walked into the Ark, and away from what once was called Camp Jaha, but now they were in talks of changing the name. The halls of the Ark now warm, no longer the cold of space as he moved down them. Once he was at the room he had been using as an office--or the Chancellor was using, but while she was recovering and being the doctor, he was taking over the role in many unofficial ways--he entered and moved to look over the map. Trying to see what was out there. He had been in talks with Bellamy about sending out scouting parties to build a map of the world around them. He just needed to decide where to send them first.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Apr 2, 2017 2:26:08 GMT
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Good question. "I was ambishes in my youth. I wanted to be more then a guard. I wanted to be Chancellor. To achieve what I wanted--to achieve what I did--I didn't make many friends." He admitted, thinking of the girl that he had left behind so he could continue his climb up. He knew that he couldn't explain more without telling Bellamy more. "So I choose my career over the girl who I had grown close too, and left moved from factory to another station, and quickly up the ranks. With nothing else to focus on, I was able to be more driven and so I became the youngest captain, and the eventually a councilman, and even vice-chancellor." He paused there, waiting for Bellamy's reaction to the news.
He had, after all, just hinted that he was been involved with the boy's mother. That he had left her behind, choosing his station over her. He wasn't proud, but he wasn't proud now of a lot of what he had done on the Ark. He wouldn't hide from it. He would just try to be better. "And I don't think she ever forgave me for that choice." It hadn't been love, but they had been close. He had been really fond of her, and if he had left himself, he could have grown to love her.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Apr 2, 2017 2:00:28 GMT
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Maybe. The Ark had been dying, and every life had to have value in order to be saved. Going to Earth had saved the 100 kids; even though he hated the idea. He had stood by it and and done it. He didn't bother telling Bellamy that he had hated the idea. He didn't defend himself when confronted with what he did. He admitted them, and tried to be a better man. Tried to be better then he had been yesterday. Instead of commenting toward floating the girl, Kane listened to his other words. "Forgiveness was had for her as well." He admitted, knowing that when he had choose to pursue his career, and had broken off their brief affair that she had not forgiven him either. Knowing that he was looking to move up int he ranks, and that a wife from factory would hold him back she had given him what he wanted--a clean escape.
In hindsight, they both had been prideful and it had cost him a son. "I think she would be sitting in the jeep with you." He addmitted, "and I'd still be trying to talk talk her into staying in that jeep. You have a logical side that she didn't. At least not in her youth. She might have later, but I hadn't talked to her in over 20 years." He could tell Bellamy was listening to things about his mother, and he hoped it would calm him--it would help him not sit and think about the others out their as he was trapped in the rover. "I was working in factory as a recruiter for the guard for a while. I meet her there. Octavia looks like her."
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Post by Marcus Kane on Apr 2, 2017 0:46:56 GMT
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You floated my mother. Marcus sat there and let the words echo in his head. It was true. He had done it, but he had been another man then. One who believed in rules before humanity. That rules defined and controlled people. Without rules there was no order--now he often broke rules, and upheld a new value on saving as many lives as he could. Even ones that cost him more to save. He wouldn't however, give up a life to save a life. Which was why he had told Bellamy not to go.
You floated my mother. If he they had found out just a year later, none of it would have mattered. He had known Aurora Blake. He had known her well. "I've done some unforgivable things in my life. Sometimes I can't forgive myself, and sometimes it's others who can't do it." He began, "I don't blame you for holding that over me. I knew your mother. She was a friend. And I still did my job. I didn't like it, but I did it." He paused, taking in a deep breath. "I knew her before you were born. I still think she would be proud of you. Just because I floated her, doesn't change that. You remind me of her. The strength and courage, and family above all else." He knew he should tell him....tell him the truth. But he couldn't get the words out right now.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Apr 1, 2017 22:35:58 GMT
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Marcus waited by the walkie, waiting for Bellamy to give him a sign that he wasn't going out into the storm. He knew what it was like to be willing to give your life away to make amends with what you'd done. He had done it before. Marcus had pushed and manipulated, and forced the council to kill over 300 of his own people. In return he had been ready to give his life to find salvation--but Jaha had beat him too it. He didn't want that for Bellamy. Whatever the young man's reasons for desperately trying, he didn't want to see three dead, rather then the two already dying.
"Bellamy?" He said into the walkie, letting go of the button right away in case he was trying to talk as well. There was two channels on the walkie. The one that the general population used, and then one that only him and Bellamy could hear right now. In the other walkie, he could hear the pleas for help--he knew it was hard for anyone to hear without answering, but especially Bellamy. In the months since coming to Earth, Bellamy had taken on a strong roll with the 100 and their families.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Dec 13, 2016 3:30:25 GMT
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"Then maybe you should tell them." Tell them? Marcus knew that coming from her that said a lot! She had been the one to turn her husband over to Jaha, and Jaha had floated Jake for that very reason. Marcus hadn't like the idea, but he hadn't stood up and stopped it ether. She had known then, just has he knew now--telling the people of the Ark would only start a riot and cause unneeded panic. He made a mental note to keep her from the general population, if Jaha allowed her to live . . . Which he had the feeling Jaha would. Kane still wasn't sure what was between Abigail and Jaha, but she was always forgiven for everything.
Marucs didn't realize that he hadn't even considered telling Jaha she wanted to tell the others. "If you had waited a few more minutes I'd be down there right now." He rolled his eyes at her dramatics (and Marcus rolling his eyes and showing anything from his tight control was rare). If he had walked slower, she'd be dead. "Given the choice I'd do it all over again. Because those kids are still alive. Earth is livable. You just don't want to see it." He was willing to admit that he wanted it to be livable. Not to her, but to himself. He wanted a way out of this, but if he didn't push, if he didn't make the culling happen then for every single day that he let this go on, another 20 people had to die. 10 days. 200 people. He would not let this go on.
"If giving up my life means I can prove that my theory is right, it's worth it." Her theory. He inhaled slowly, and spoke in a controlled voice. It was tight with anger, but Marcus was always in control of himself. "The loss of your daughter was hard on you, and I understand you need to believe this." He didn't have any children, and right now he was glad he didn't. He couldn't afford any weakness right now, even if it was something he normally wished for. "But I will not let people die because you have a theory." He was trying to save everyone. "You killed that girl when you sent her to Earth." That didn't mean he hadn't put a man on the radio to be watching for a message from Reyes, it just meant that he knew it would never come. "And you know what the worst part is? You're not even sorry. You don't even care she risked everything on something you can't prove beyond a mother's emotion."
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Post by Marcus Kane on Dec 13, 2016 2:32:51 GMT
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Marcus Kane didn't often get surprised, but hearing someone call him by his full name caused him to pause in his step. He looked down at the young girl, and while he didn't recall her name he knew that she was one of the kids he had sent to Earth. He couldn't even remember why, but he knew the faces. It was hard to forget the faces of the the 100 children that he had thought he was sending down to die.
She continued by saying she needed to speak with him, and he noticed the pause in her words. She was nervous, but not because of him. Most people were imitated just by his name. EVERYONE called him Kane. A few called him Marcus but no one called him Marcus Kane to his face. She had done it, so it wasn't him that had her scared. "Are you alright?" He asked her, not sure what had happened, but with everything else happening around here, it couldn't be good. Besides, he had a special interest in what was left of the 100 children. He wasn't going to fail them twice. "You can tell me here, or we can go sit by the tree." He gestured to it, knowing that there were less people around the tree. If she needed a private word, it would make sure she wasn't over heard.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Dec 13, 2016 2:11:42 GMT
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Marcus watched as she struggled with his information. His fist, the way she put down the patchwork, even her words that seemed a warning, but not threatening. He knew how she felt. A bit. He had never imagined that he would have a daughter, much less find a fully grown one before him. He thought about they'd met once again, and saw Jaha--his friend--hold a knife to her. He had begged Jaha then, but knowing what he did now, he would had tried harder. Not that she seemed to need his protection. Perhaps it was just parental instinct that came forward. Protect her, even when she could do better protecting him.
"I don't know what to say or what to do. Or even how to feel. I've never exactly been in this position, nor have I ever had proper parents." Fair enough, "I have never been a proper father before." Or even an unproper one. Or even come close. He had upon occasion thought of children, but they had been more abstract. Children, or the lack of them, had been a regret that he had for a while. "My father." He found his lips tighten, as hint of a sad smile came to his at her words. "Out of everyone that it could be, I'm glad, and honored, that it's you." Kane closed his eyes tightly for a moment, the weight of her words settling over him in a heavy way. He was honored, and greatful. Her honestly could not come easy, and so he would return it with his own. "I was young when I knew your mother. I should have tried harder to keep her with me." He admitted, "And while i will forever regret that I could not have been there to see you grow, I am very proud to see what all you have done."
"I have long admired what you have been able to accomplish. I only wish I could have seen you do it." He knew that for a leader, composure was like a sort of power. The more logical you were, and the less emotional, the more power you had in a moment. But he didn't care. Slowly, so not to startle her, he lifted his hand to her shoulder, and leaned forward to pull her into a embrace. He didn't know what would happen from here, but he knew that this changed everything for him. While he would still support his people, he could never just walk away from this.
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Post by Marcus Kane on Dec 13, 2016 1:52:21 GMT
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"I will leave word to have someone come and find you and let you know then moment everything is done." Marcus promised him, knowing that it wouldn't do anyone any good if Sinclair went and tried to be there now. He had to hope that the screams wouldn't carry this far. He didn't envy the young girl what she was about to go through. It would forever change her life. He had to hope that she was strong enough to make it through.
Marcus had technically came to say everything he needed, but he didn't move on right away. Sinclair and him had had a moment of understanding while back int he sky, and he saw the man as someone he respected, and could even be friends with. He didn't have a lot of friends down here, and he was hesitant at moving on. "You did good." He reminded him, "We are down here because of you. I know it's a small comfort, you should know that everyone knows it was you who got us this far."
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